2022-11-18 06:42:13

by Yue Haibing

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Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: ethernet: renesas: rswitch: Fix signedness bug in rswitch_etha_wait_link_verification()

rswitch_reg_wait() may return negative value, which converts to true later.
However rswitch_etha_hw_init() only check it less than zero.

Fixes: 3590918b5d07 ("net: ethernet: renesas: Add support for "Ethernet Switch"")
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.c
index f3d27aef1286..c098b27093ea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.c
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ static void rswitch_etha_write_mac_address(struct rswitch_etha *etha, const u8 *
etha->addr + MRMAC1);
}

-static bool rswitch_etha_wait_link_verification(struct rswitch_etha *etha)
+static int rswitch_etha_wait_link_verification(struct rswitch_etha *etha)
{
iowrite32(MLVC_PLV, etha->addr + MLVC);

--
2.20.1



2022-11-18 10:38:13

by Geert Uytterhoeven

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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ethernet: renesas: rswitch: Fix signedness bug in rswitch_etha_wait_link_verification()

Hi Yue,

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 7:36 AM YueHaibing <[email protected]> wrote:
> rswitch_reg_wait() may return negative value, which converts to true later.
> However rswitch_etha_hw_init() only check it less than zero.
>
> Fixes: 3590918b5d07 ("net: ethernet: renesas: Add support for "Ethernet Switch"")
> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <[email protected]>

Thanks for your patch!

A similar patch was already applied as
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/b4b221bd79a1

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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